Madison's been going through a growth spurt lately and a lot of the clothes I bought for her at the end of summer are all getting a little small on her. Take this sweatshirt for example...

The sleeves were waaaaay to short on her. So I figured since it's only got a few months wear into it I'd make it fit her for a lot longer. I took out my handy scissors and my sewing machine and...

taa daa!..

Now it should last her till at least the end of the school year. 

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Madison has also been asking me to buy her some flowery things to put in her hair, but I thought I'd try make something at home before going out and actually spending money on them.

She thinks it's beautiful so I guess I won't be making that trip to the store. :)

(Kaelynn wanted a picture of her hair too)

I got the flower idea from The Trendy Treehouse.  I wasn't able to do it exactly like she did because I didn't have any brads in the house. I just used a button, sewed it on top of the two bottom layers, placed the top circle on top of that, and then used one elastic to secure it all together around the button. I sewed it onto a ouchless type elastic instead of attaching it to a clip or barrette. It seems to work!

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I made another, mostly futile attempt to get a picture of all four kids together. They get way to hyper when I take out my camera so I never seem to get my perfect picture that I imagine in my head but oh well. I'll love these pictures either way.

Pants for Ethan!

Let me just say that making pants for Ethan without a pattern is not something I'm going to be doing to often!

I started on thursday cutting an old, stained pair of his pants apart. The next step was to make pattern pieces, so I grabbed some tissue paper I had laying around. Once the pattern pieces were done I used an old pair of Byron's pants and laid out the pattern and cut it out. Then I attempted to put it all back together. :S 

(I should have paid more attention when I was taking his other pants apart.)  Oh well, it all worked out in the end, and I didn't end up having to take out too many seams! :P

Just Dreaming...

Once spring comes, you know, in May or June, I'm planning on painting our front door. It's white right now, not that there's anything wrong with that. But...

I really like this blue door.

Or maybe purple? (Although that one might be a little harder to sell to Byron...)

Ooohh... some more nice blue doors! 

I've also always like a red front door but only if it's the right shade of red.

But we have a long way to go before the snow melts and spring comes so I'll just keep dreaming about my painted door for the next few months. :)

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I attempted to crochet Madison a new hat this week, but I think I really misjudged on the size. 

 

Oops! 

Oh well, she doesn't seem to mind.

I'm not sure she's realized I've taken it over yet though, because everytime I put it on she tells me, 'That's ok mom, you can wear my hat!"  (I have a very generous daughter.) 

Maybe I should let her know I'll make her a new one... one that doesn't hang in front of her eyes. :)

Repurposed

I had some old pajama pants that I no longer wore because they had a rather inconvenient hole in them.

 But, me being me, I kept them thinking that maybe I could use the material for something. Well, I found a use for them! My oldest daughter has been growing like crazy in the last few months and not to many of her pajamas fit her anymore. So I made some new ones for her. She's so happy now!

I also had some leftover pink fleece so I sewed up a shirt as well using pattern 5744 from McCalls.

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I was using this wonderful jar for storing my kitchen utensils on my counter for the last 6 years. I'ts never been quite big enough to fit all the ones I use.  

So the other day while I was just about to throw away another empty can of formula I had an aha! moment.

I gathered together my supplies: some scrapbook paper, scissors and mod podge and got to work.

The end result was this! And look how much room I have to stuff things into it!!

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I gave Nadiya her first taste of rice cereal last night. I don't think she was quite as excited about it as I was. ;)

Heehee, it makes me giggle inside just looking at it! I don't think she was too impressed.